The Lost Sheep

The 23rd Psalm begins thusly, "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want." Many people would probably resent being compared to an animal that belongs to a herd, and gives itself unthinking to the herd mentality. I think a lot of people like to think of themselves as self-reliant, independent, and self-sufficient.

Women are currently socialized to think that way, to think that being someone's wife or mother is a lesser objective, that the greater ambition in life is the pursuit of material wealth. We have gotten so far from our intended purpose as human beings.

Dr. Willie Parker is an ob-gyn who performs abortions, generally for no medical reason. Parker has become a coveted guest for those who promote this sacrifice to Moloch, like in this interview with Amanda Marcotte, in which he says he performs abortions out of "Christian compassion."

The profound admiration for Parker is written on the faces of the two lesser demons on either side of him.

In this Quartz article, Parker is quoted as saying that "abortion is never mentioned," in the Bible. William Shakespeare wrote that "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose, an evil soul producing holy witness." Apparently, the Devil also can pretend that the Bible's plain language does not say what it says.

The Sixth Commandment is pretty clear on the subject in general. But yes, the good book doesn't specifically mention dilation and evacuation, or vacuum aspiration. But the book of Matthew has the Parable of the Lost Sheep. Jesus says,

"If any man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go and search for the one that is straying? If it turns out that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray. So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones perish."

The point is that Parker uses phrases like "Christian compassion" out of one side of his mouth, while ridiculing the faithful and the pro-life secularists out of the other side. In this April 18 interview with Steve Inskeep, he says, "if you say that life begins at conception," that is "a religious understanding of what life means."

His retort to this "religious understanding" is that this is a "non-biologic understanding," that "life began a long time ago, when whatever we define as life showed up on the planet." This is anti-scientific, and anti-reason, to compare a single-cell bacteria from billions of years ago to the highly evolved product of human beings.

And that's not even the most cringe-worthy sentiment he shares. He asserts that if we "prioritize the outcome of reproduction" over the body of a woman, "it is the same as saying that a woman becomes property." Therefore a woman who can't have an abortion is a slave in the exact sense that an African person sold into lifetime bondage is a slave.

Dr. Parker forgets that women have the ability to say "no" to sex, whereas a captured African has no agency whatsoever. All of this sounds pretty much like rationalizations for committing large-scale atrocities, and giving license to those who would. All of this sounds like someone who was mentored by George Tiller, as Parker was. And this is where I go meta.

Because it's not the children who are aborted that are the Lost Sheep. They have always existed with God, and they will always exist with God. The Lost Sheep are women who learn to justify this practice, and Parker, well, he's the Evil Shepherd.